Clemence Poesy Quotes
I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I'm not super into sports.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
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When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
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I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.
